Retro Africa has announced that its upcoming exhibition presents “Changing Faces: New Frontiers in Figurative Art”, which is a solo contemporary art exhibition by Alimi Adewale.
The exhibition, it said, is curated by Dolly Kola-balogun and Ugonna Ibe-ejiogu.
The exhibition scheduled from April 31 to June 25, 2021 at the Retro Africa Gallery, Abuja, incorporates the mastery of materiality and process as a response to recent global upheavals which include the world-wide pandemic and protests against state’s sanctioned police violence in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, United States, and worldwide.
The organisers explained in a statement that the exhibition which spread across the two floors of the gallery, changing faces will present newly commissioned sitespecific works consisting of more than 15 large impasto paintings and medium to extra-large minimalist and abstract sculptures coated in acrylics, vividly diversified by the inclusion of the rich racial varieties that make up our human constitution.
It noted that the installation of works suspended from the ceiling beams adds on ethreal dimension, adding that,”alimi repurposes long-held tenets of European, modern and indigenous art into new visions of African figuration.”
The exhibition also lays emphasis on our commonwealth as keepers of the human race tasked with unifying a deeply divided world, further fractured by religious differences, income and gender equities, rather than emphasising on what separates us as individuals.
The statement explained that Alimi’s latest solo exhibition at Retro Africa is a timely intervention for our troubled contemporary times, as well as bold new progression in his commanding oeuvre
The exhibition would be held at Retro Africa Gallery, No 12 Ukpabiasika Street, Asokoro, Abuja.
